Bert is an enthusiastic (big) data architect with a passion for data modelling, data integration and data governance. Bert has over 25 years of experience in ICT and has fulfilled numerous roles. For example for TenneT, LVNL, NS, Ministry of Agriculture (LNV), Province of Gelderland and Jeugdzorg Nederland.

Cooperation in project teams with various professional disciplines, exchanging information and connecting people is his natural attitude.

Bert prefers to act as an intermediary between business and ICT. He has the competences to translate complex ICT constructions to understandable non-ICT descriptions.

Bert has experience as big data trainer and in speaking at (inter)national ICT conferences and has been guest lecturer at the University of Louvain (Belgium).

He has written books and online courses about data-architecture, data modeling and numerous whitepapers about data, integration and modelling.

Bert develops various open source architecture products like a wiki data docent a web publication platform for architectural tools